1st design crossed the 25% barrier of the required votes.

This design of designer http://www.justproud.com/Community/Member/cmziggy crossed the 25% barrier of the required votes. We are happy that the co-creation is going well. By building the community getting the required votes will improve rapidly.

Also the comments & suggestions to designs are very nice & most important, the designers take notice of this & sometimes they decide to implement the suggestion.

Also connecting to designs is going well. Both models & photographers are getting connected & gaining votes; we are still in the process to see how we can optimize the voting pages; we keep you posted on that.

So overall we are very happy about the 1^st month. 

Improved project search, voting & connecting projects

From today we have made some improvements to the site:

• we introduced the project search
• The voting is easier; its both easier to vote & easier to browse through the connecting members
• We included tyhe participating projects to the member page, so people know who is doing what & from there you can vote as well.

Example of the improvements on

 the public profile page of Dora

Thanks for your suggestions, and please continue improving the site. Next month we expect to have the shop online & start the 2nd International contest.

Improved member search

From today we have an improved member search; now you can find people based on role, country & available pictures. Along with the increasing member count we will give additional search & filter options. Soon we will have the project search ready as well.

Sneak preview: Vanessa (model) by Bonnie Strange (photography)! More to come......

Beta launch crowdsourcing fashion site JUSTPROUD

Site
Let’s share some facts with you about the beta-launch of our crowdsourcing fashion site. Two weeks online gave us many many visitors, new members & fresh designs. The overall concept seems to fill a lacuna in the Fashion industry; real involvement of real people.

The visitors stay an average of 6 minutes & 39 seconds on the site in which they visit an average of 7,18 pages & most members do connect to 2 projects and comment even on more.
With this new beta version there seems to be a more widely spread visitors profile based on location. (see chart).

The first (small) changes are made to the site; navigation is clearer, a ‘join now’ button increased sign ups & clickable comments at the home increased the average page visits.
Right now we are working on the next fases:

Willem, from Mediastudio.nl, explaining our concept to us

This month: More site improvements:
- Better search options for members & projects
- Connecting projects visable on users public profile
- Deep link to voting page for connected members
- Some technical improvements

Next month:
- The shop

Summer:
- Improved site release V0.5 (with many spectacular new features & improvements)

Development
Currently we are investigating & testing, closely together with Microsoft to deploy JUSTPROUD internationally scalable on their innovative Cloud platform: Windows & SQL Azure. So no matter where people live, data will always be up-to-date & performance always good. This cloud hosting solution will enable us to be in the same league as Facebook, Twitter, Google, MSN in terms of global performance & availability.

Photographers contest
Apparently we didn’t communicate clear enough who the winner was of our previous Photographers contest. We sincerely apologize for that. One of the photographers who was very enthusiastic & put a lot of effort in the contest is Ana Pais; please find her amazing work here: http://www.behance.net/anapais .

New crowdsourcing initative
Our good example got some followers: Soon there will be a launch of a new fashion crowdsourcing concept; fashionstake.com; there people can sponsor desigers & bennefit of the designers collection. We wish them best of luck & hopefully together we can expand the fashion crowdsourcing market.